Let's start from the beginning, from your first steps as a musician. I have read you have received a classical education.. so how did you get involved with country and blues?

I did have a classical education, but always had the concurrent thread and passion for country and folk music. Folk music has its own strictures and traditions, though far less scholarly than in the classical music world, and I was attracted to both.

You grew up in New Zealand.. and then you moved to Melbourne. What is the best chance the Australian music scene has given you so far?

I moved to Melbourne in 2013 and have really been touring and making a go of a music career ever since. Australias just that much bigger than New Zealand and I started working with my manager as soon as i moved over so things really went up a notch.

On February the 16th your second album "Make Way For Love" will be out. What are the most innovative elements of this release?

For the first time I've written from an intensely personal perspective. That's the most strikingly new element I think.

Have you ever actually felt as you did have to make way for a feeling?

Yes, I do. This album charts a journey, from hunting love like a prize beast to a far more passive, resigned perspective of letting it wash over you.

You are capable of sharing such personal emotions through your songs. How much is the autobiographical component present in your work? And how difficult is it to deal with the theme of love nowadays without replicating the past?

The autobiographical component runs very strongly through this album, as it never has before for me. Love is always fresh; everyone feels as though it's never happened quite like this for anyone else before. As an artist, you have to have faith in this fact and embrace the tradition while bringing your own sense of innocent wonder to it.

Your first single is the inspired duet "Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore" featuring Aldous Harding. Why have you chosen such a negative idea for your coming back on the scene?

Like "Love is A Terrible Thing", theres meant to be a layer of irony here. Of intentional self-deception. I don't really believe it, it's just a party line to try and fool the heart into getting over itself. But the game is given up at the end.

I believe some songs do have cinematic vibrations... do you possibly agree?

Absolutely. I like my music to exist in a landscape, a world the listener can build in tandem with the song.

On this regard, what soundtrack you would have loved to have composed?

I'd love to compose for a horror film, something terrifyingly sparse and empty. Joseph Bishara's score for "Insidious" is absolutely chilling and elevates the film so much.

Your voice has nothing to envy to artists such as Roy Orbison and other Rock'n'Roll icons. What does it take to achieve this sort of level? And who are the "voices" that have inspired you the most?

It's obviously very humbling to have such comparisons. I grew up in a household where singing out, really warbling, was not an embarrassing thing to do, much like in the Italian singing tradition. I really love the tone of singers like Nicolai Gedda, that floating tenor lilt.

You started founding of The Unfaithful Ways, which you fronted, and then you preferred to continue as a solo artist. What are the main two reasons behind this choice?

Just a want to explore my own ego really. And an excitement at the prospect of doing things off of my own back.

And what would it take to have you back in a band project?

Not much! There's something so connecting about playing in a band. No one's truly an orphan so long as they're in a band.

Unfortunately your show in Bologna has been canceled. Have already started planning a new Italian gig?

I know! Im so very sorry about that. Yes, a new show is in the works, hold tight...

Before saying goodbye, please leave a message to your Italian fans!

I'm so sorry not to be visiting on this tour, I am still yet to cross the border into your wonderful land, please be patient!